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Reviewer: CFpatient, 25-34 Male on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)

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Comment: The new soft gel version of this drug (the hard tablet is no longer available) has such a horrible taste after you swallow it that if will cause the average patient to throw up all the other medication they are taking. As a CF patient I have taken every kind of pill tablet imaginable but the texture, smell and taste of this medicine as it is digested, cause one to belch etc. and the taste and smel
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Comment:The new soft gel version of this drug (the hard tablet is no longer available) has such a horrible taste after you swallow it that if will cause the average patient to throw up all the other medication they are taking. As a CF patient I have taken every kind of pill tablet imaginable but the texture, smell and taste of this medicine as it is digested, cause one to belch etc. and the taste and smell is simply unbearable. Let me be clear, it is not the initial taste of the medicine, that I can handle and learn to adjust to, it is the taste as it begins to digest that is unbearable and out of the patient's control. Everytime I take this medicine I end up throwing up all my other medicine which is far more important and expensive. Why did they take their chewable tablet off the market? The need to offer a solution to the current soft gel and liguid as at this point this medicine is completely ineffective and actually has inhibited me from taking other treatments that are far more necessary. This company need to come up with a solution or simply offer a hard tablet. If its a matter of patents then their are other solutions out there. Hide Full Comment

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